Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.